An interior shot of the Museum of Military History. 'This viewing platform is within Libeskind's meteorite and the view of Dresden, the fantastical city of rococo and gothic that was splintered like porcelain in two nights of bombing in 1945, can only be seen through its mesh'

A gas mask of the German Bundeswehr and other protective wear on display: 'The museum's varied exhibits are part of an intensely and minutely considered representation of modern Germany’s complicated feelings about war'

'The building's energy dissipates rather too rapidly when you are returned to the world of the right angle, in flanking galleries dedicated to more conventional chronological displays'Photograph: Bitter Bredt/Courtesy of Holzer Kobler Architekturen